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The San Jose Sharks are a professional ice hockey team based in San Jose, California. They are members of the Pacific Division of the Western Conference of the National Hockey League and they play their home games at the SAP Center, known locally as the Shark Tank. The Sharks were founded in 1991 and were the first NHL franchise based in the San Fr

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S. J. Sharkie, the Sharks' mascot, made his debut during the 1991–92 season.

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The SAP Center at San Jose, nicknamed "The Shark Tank" by both fans and media alike, during its time as the HP Pavilion

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The Sharks celebrate a 4–0 victory over the Phoenix Coyotes on December 11, 2006

San Jose, California
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San Jose, officially the City of San José, is the economic, cultural, and political center of Silicon Valley and the largest city in Northern California. With an estimated 2015 population of 1,026,908, it is the third most populous city in California and the tenth most populous in United States. Located in the center of the Santa Clara Valley, on t

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Looking west over northern San Jose (downtown is at far left) and other parts of Silicon Valley. See an up-to-the-minute view of San Jose from the Mount Hamilton web camera

List of San Jose Sharks head coaches
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The San Jose Sharks are a professional ice hockey team based in San Jose, California. The team is a member of the Pacific Division in the Western Conference of the National Hockey League, established for the 1991–92 NHL season, the Sharks initially played games at the Cow Palace before moving to SAP Center at San Jose in 1993. The Sharks are owned

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Todd McLellan, the 8th head coach of the Sharks, coached the team from 2008 to 2015.

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Darryl Sutter, the 5th head coach of the Sharks, coached the team from 1997 to 2002.

List of San Jose Sharks players
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The San Jose Sharks are a professional ice hockey team based in San Jose, California, United States. They are members of the Pacific Division of the Western Conference in the National Hockey League, since their inception,283 different players have played at least one regular season or playoff game for the Sharks. The team has had nine captains, dou

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Evgeni Nabokov was drafted by the Sharks in 1994 and played his first game in 2000.

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Over the course of five seasons, Vesa Toskala appeared in 115 games for the Sharks.

Hasso Plattner
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Hasso Plattner is a German businessman. A co-founder of SAP SE software company, he has been chairman of the board of SAP SE since May 2003. As of November 2016, Forbes reported that he had a net worth of $10.8 billion, for his commitment to economics and science, Plattner has received a number of honours. In 2001, Time Magazine Europe ranked Platt

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Doug Wilson (ice hockey)
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Douglas Frederick Wilson is a Canadian former professional ice hockey defenceman and the current general manager of the San Jose Sharks of the National Hockey League. After a junior career for the Ottawa 67s in the Ontario Hockey Association, Wilson was drafted in the first round, 6th overall. He then played 14 seasons with the Chicago Black Hawks

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Wilson in 1977

Joe Pavelski
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Joseph James Pavelski is an American professional ice hockey player and captain for the San Jose Sharks of the National Hockey League. He scored a goal in his first NHL game, making him the 11th Sharks player in the history of the team to do so and he won a silver medal as a member of the United States national mens ice hockey team at the 2010 Wint

Cow Palace
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Cow Palace is an indoor arena located in Daly City, California, situated on the citys border with neighboring San Francisco. Completed in 1941, it hosted the San Francisco Warriors of the NBA from 1962 to 1964, the Warriors temporarily returned to the Cow Palace to host the 1975 NBA Finals due to the fact that the Oakland–Alameda County Coliseum Ar

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SAP Center
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SAP Center at San Jose is an indoor arena located in San Jose, California. Its primary tenant is the San Jose Sharks of the National Hockey League and it is also the home to the San Jose Barracuda of the American Hockey League. Plans for a San Jose arena began in the mid-1980s, when a group of citizens formed Fund Arena Now. The group contacted cit

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SAP Center at San Jose

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North entrance of the arena in 2008 when it was known as HP Pavilion at San Jose

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Side view of the arena

American Hockey League
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The American Hockey League is a 30-team professional ice hockey league based in the United States and Canada that serves as the primary developmental league for the National Hockey League. Twenty-seven AHL teams are located in the United States and the three are in Canada. The league offices are located in Springfield, Massachusetts, and its curren

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An AHL record crowd of 45,653 watched the Adirondack Phantoms defeat the Hershey Bears, 4–3 in OT, at the 2012 AHL Winter Classic at Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

San Jose Barracuda
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The San Jose Barracuda are a professional ice hockey team in the American Hockey League which began play in the 2015–16 season. Affiliated with the National Hockey Leagues San Jose Sharks, the Barracuda share the SAP Center with its parent club, the Barracuda are a relocation of the former Worcester Sharks AHL franchise, joining several other AHL f

ECHL
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The ECHL is a mid-level professional ice hockey league based in Princeton, New Jersey, with teams scattered across the United States and one franchise in Canada. It is a tier below the American Hockey League, additionally, the leagues players are represented by the Professional Hockey Players Association in negotiations with the ECHL itself. Some 6

Allen Americans
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The Allen Americans are an ice hockey team headquartered at the Allen Event Center in Allen, Texas, which currently plays in the ECHL. The team was founded in 2009 in the Central Hockey League where they played for five seasons, the CHL folded in 2014 and the ECHL accepted the remaining CHL teams as members for the 2014–15 season. In their first tw

NBC Sports California
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NBC Sports California is an American regional sports network that is owned by the NBC Sports Group unit of NBCUniversal, and operates as an affiliate of NBC Sports Regional Networks. The channel broadcasts coverage of professional and college sports events throughout Northern California, as well as original sports-related news, discussion. NBC Spor

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Comcast SportsNet California

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For further history of the 98.5 FM frequency in San Jose, see also KOME. KUFX is a classic rock-formatted radio station in San Jose, California and it is owned by Entercom Communications. The station is referred to on-air as K-Fox, the station has studios located in the SoMa district of San Francisco, and the transmitter is located on Blackberry Hi

Bret Hedican
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Bret Michael Hedican is an American former professional ice hockey player, a Stanley Cup champion, and a two-time US Olympian. Hedican was drafted 198th overall by the St. Louis Blues in the 1988 NHL Entry Draft, a product of St. Cloud State University, Hedican played with the 1992 US Olympic Team before he made his NHL debut in the 1991–92 season

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Bret Hedican

List of NHL mascots
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This is a list of current and former National Hockey League mascots, sorted alphabetically. Al the Octopus is the eight legged mascot of the Detroit Red Wings and it is also the only mascot that is not costumed. Since then, fans throw an octopus onto the ice for good luck, in one game in the 1995 Playoffs, fans threw forty-five onto the ice. Arena

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Al the Octopus (Detroit Red Wings)

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Bernie the St. Bernard introduced October 3, 2009. He is the Colorado Avalanche's current mascot

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Fin the Whale (Vancouver Canucks), firing a T-shirt cannon at a Vancouver Canucks game in 2009.

2015 NHL Stadium Series
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The 2015 NHL Stadium Series was an outdoor regular season National Hockey League game, part of the Stadium Series of games held at football or baseball stadiums. The Los Angeles Kings played against the San Jose Sharks at Levis Stadium in Santa Clara and this was the only game in the Stadium Series during the 2014–15 NHL regular season. The game co

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San Jose Sharks
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The San Jose Sharks are a professional ice hockey team based in San Jose, California. They are members of the Pacific Division of the Western Conference of the National Hockey League and they play their home games at the SAP Center, known locally as the Shark Tank. The Sharks were founded in 1991 and were the first NHL franchise based in the San Francisco Bay Area since the California Golden Seals relocated to Cleveland in 1976 and they have won six division titles and one conference championship. The Oakland Coliseum Arena was home to the California Golden Seals of the NHL from 1967 to 1976. They had long wanted to bring back to the Bay Area, and asked the NHL for permission to move the North Stars there in the late 1980s. Meanwhile, a group led by former Hartford Whalers owner Howard Baldwin was pushing the NHL to bring a team to San Jose, in return, the North Stars would be allowed to participate as an equal partner in an expansion draft with the new Bay Area team. On May 5,1990, the Gunds officially sold their share of the North Stars to Baldwin and were awarded a new team for the Bay Area, over 5,000 potential names were submitted by mail for the new team. While the first-place finisher was Blades, the Gunds were concerned about the potentially negative association with weapons. The name was said to have inspired by the large number of sharks living in the Pacific Ocean. Seven varieties live there, and one area of water near the Bay Area is known as the red triangle because of its shark population. The teams first marketing head, Matt Levine, said of the new name, Sharks are relentless, determined, swift, agile, bright and we plan to build an organization that has all those qualities. For their first two seasons, the Sharks played at the Cow Palace in Daly City, just outside San Francisco, a facility that the NHL, pat Falloon was their first draft choice, and led the team in points during their first season. George Kingston was their first coach during their first two seasons, Wilson was named the teams first captain and All-Star representative in the inaugural season. However, the Sharks first two seasons saw the struggles for an expansion team. The 71 losses in 1992–93 is an NHL record, and they suffered a 17-game losing streak, while winning just 11 games. Kingston was fired following the end of the 1992–93 season, several team firsts happened in the 1992–93 season. On November 17,1992, San Jose goaltender Arturs Irbe recorded the first shutout in team history, the early era also saw the birth of the San Jose Sharks long-time mascot, S. J. Sharkie. On January 28,1992, at a game vs. the New York Rangers, a Name the Mascot contest began that night, with the winning name of S. J. Sharkie being announced on April 15,1992

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S. J. Sharkie, the Sharks' mascot, made his debut during the 1991–92 season.
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The SAP Center at San Jose, nicknamed "The Shark Tank" by both fans and media alike, during its time as the HP Pavilion
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The Sharks celebrate a 4–0 victory over the Phoenix Coyotes on December 11, 2006

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San Jose, California
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San Jose, officially the City of San José, is the economic, cultural, and political center of Silicon Valley and the largest city in Northern California. With an estimated 2015 population of 1,026,908, it is the third most populous city in California and the tenth most populous in United States. Located in the center of the Santa Clara Valley, on the shore of San Francisco Bay. San Jose is the county seat of Santa Clara County, the most affluent county in California. San Jose is the largest city in both the San Francisco Bay Area and the San Jose-San Francisco-Oakland Combined Statistical Area, which contain 7.7 million and 8.7 million people respectively. Before the arrival of the Spanish, the area around San Jose was inhabited by the Ohlone people, San Jose was founded on November 29,1777, as the Pueblo of San José de Guadalupe, the first civilian town founded in Spanish Alta California. When California gained statehood in 1850, San Jose became the states first capital, following World War II, San Jose experienced an economic boom, with a rapid population growth and aggressive annexation of nearby cities and communities carried out in the 1950s and 60s. The rapid growth of the high-technology and electronics industries further accelerated the transition from a center to an urbanized metropolitan area. Results of the 1990 U. S. Census indicated that San Jose had officially surpassed San Francisco as the most populous city in Northern California, by the 1990s, San Jose and the rest of Silicon Valley had become the global center for the high tech and internet industries. San Jose is considered to be a city, notable for its affluence. San Joses location within the high tech industry, as a cultural, political. San Jose is one of the wealthiest major cities in the United States and the world, and has the third highest GDP per capita in the world, according to the Brookings Institute. Major global tech companies including Cisco Systems, eBay, Adobe Systems, PayPal, Brocade, Samsung, Acer, Prior to European settlement, the area was inhabited by several groups of Ohlone Native Americans. The first lasting European presence began with a series of Franciscan missions established from 1769 by Junípero Serra, San Jose came under Mexican rule in 1821 after Mexico broke with the Spanish crown. It then became part of the United States, after it capitulated in 1846, on March 27,1850, San Jose became the second incorporated city in the state, with Josiah Belden its first mayor. San Jose was Californias first state capital, and hosted the first, today the Circle of Palms Plaza in downtown is the historical marker for the first state capital. The city was a station on the Butterfield Overland Mail route, in the period 1900 through 1910, San Jose served as a center for pioneering invention, innovation, and impact in both lighter-than-air and heavier-than-air flight. These activities were led principally by John Montgomery and his peers, the City of San Jose has established Montgomery Park, a Monument at San Felipe and Yerba Buena Roads, and John J. Montgomery Elementary School in his honor

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Images, from top down, left to right: Downtown San Jose, Hotel De Anza, East San Jose suburbs, Lick Observatory, Plaza de César Chávez
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South First Street in the 1940s
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Overhead panorama of downtown San Jose.
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Looking west over northern San Jose (downtown is at far left) and other parts of Silicon Valley. See an up-to-the-minute view of San Jose from the Mount Hamilton web camera

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List of San Jose Sharks head coaches
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The San Jose Sharks are a professional ice hockey team based in San Jose, California. The team is a member of the Pacific Division in the Western Conference of the National Hockey League, established for the 1991–92 NHL season, the Sharks initially played games at the Cow Palace before moving to SAP Center at San Jose in 1993. The Sharks are owned by San Jose Sports & Entertainment Enterprises, there have been nine head coaches in Sharks franchise history. George Kingston was the first coach in Sharks history and lasted two seasons, which included a 1992–93 campaign where the set a NHL record for losses in a season with 71. Todd McLellan has the most games coached, wins, points, playoff games coached, cap Raeder is the leader in winning percentage, winning his sole game as head coach on December 3,2002 against the Phoenix Coyotes. Jim Wiley holds the records for fewest wins and fewest points. The current coach of the Sharks is Peter DeBoer, who was hired on May 28,2015

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Todd McLellan, the 8th head coach of the Sharks, coached the team from 2008 to 2015.
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Darryl Sutter, the 5th head coach of the Sharks, coached the team from 1997 to 2002.

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List of San Jose Sharks players
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The San Jose Sharks are a professional ice hockey team based in San Jose, California, United States. They are members of the Pacific Division of the Western Conference in the National Hockey League, since their inception,283 different players have played at least one regular season or playoff game for the Sharks. The team has had nine captains, doug Wilson was the first, serving in the teams expansion years between 1991 and 1993. Igor Larionov was another player for the team, who along with Ed Belfour are the only Sharks to be inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame. Goaltender Evgeni Nabokov, selected in 1994, established himself as an NHL regular in 2000–01 when he won the Calder Memorial Trophy as the NHLs top rookie and he went on to win 293 games in San Jose. Jonathan Cheechoo is the only Sharks player to score 50 goals in a season, the teams current captain is Joe Pavelski. He has appeared in three NHL All-Star Games while a member of the Sharks, and won a gold medal competing for Canada at the 2010 Winter Olympics, * Appeared in a Sharks game during the 2012–13 season. † Hockey Hall of Famer, or retired number, the Seasons column lists the first year of the season of the players first game and the last year of the season of the players last game. A As of the 2005–2006 NHL season, all games have a winner, teams losing in overtime, the OTL column also includes SOL. B Rotating captaincy during 2003–2004 season, general San Jose Sharks all-time roster

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San Jose Sharks players celebrating a game win in 2006.
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Shown with the Kolner Haie of the DEL, Thomas Greiss made his NHL and Sharks debut in 2008.
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Evgeni Nabokov was drafted by the Sharks in 1994 and played his first game in 2000.
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Over the course of five seasons, Vesa Toskala appeared in 115 games for the Sharks.

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Hasso Plattner
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Hasso Plattner is a German businessman. A co-founder of SAP SE software company, he has been chairman of the board of SAP SE since May 2003. As of November 2016, Forbes reported that he had a net worth of $10.8 billion, for his commitment to economics and science, Plattner has received a number of honours. In 2001, Time Magazine Europe ranked Plattner #1 on its list of the most important, according to the Chancellor, Plattner created an international corporation proving that German companies can be at the top of the technological hierarchy worldwide. In an interview in August 2004, the Munich-based management consultant Roland Berger named Hasso Plattner as one of the five Germans who have made the greatest impression on him. In the Welt am Sonntag article Berger pointed out how Plattner founded, built up, in 2016, Plattner was estimated to be worth US$10.8 billion by Forbes. Along with sailing, Plattner is a keen golfer and he owns the Fancourt Golf Estate, which has four Gary Player-designed championship courses. The Links of Fancourt staged the 2003 Presidents Cup matches between the USA and a team, captained by Gary Player. Plattner is an investor in San Jose Sports & Entertainment Enterprises, which owns the San Jose Sharks, in 2013, he bought out two of the partners in SJS&E, and began serving as the Sharks representative on the National Hockey Leagues board of governors. Plattner has had connections with South Africa over the years and spends some of his time living there. In the fight against AIDS, he supports the universities of KwaZulu Natal, proceeds went towards the former South African president Nelson Mandelas fund to fight HIV/AIDS. Plattner contributed more than €20 million which enabled reconstruction of the exterior of the Stadtschloss. At the time, it the largest donation ever gifted in Germany by a single individual, Plattner signed The Giving Pledge in February 2013. Since his retirement from SAP, Plattner has been active as a benefactor in the field of technological research. Media reports have named him one of Germanys most important private sponsors of scientific research, Plattner received his honorary doctorate in 2002 and his honorary professorship in 2004 from the University of Potsdam. Plattner had also received a doctorate and an honorary professorship in Information Systems from the Saarland University. The same university named him a senator in 1998. Plattner has pledged €50 million of his fortune over a period of 20 years

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Doug Wilson (ice hockey)
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Douglas Frederick Wilson is a Canadian former professional ice hockey defenceman and the current general manager of the San Jose Sharks of the National Hockey League. After a junior career for the Ottawa 67s in the Ontario Hockey Association, Wilson was drafted in the first round, 6th overall. He then played 14 seasons with the Chicago Black Hawks and two years for the San Jose Sharks in the National Hockey League and he was the first captain in Sharks history, serving two years before retiring after the 1992–93 season. Wilson played 14 seasons in Chicago and still ranks as the clubs highest scoring defenceman in points, goals, Wilson is fifth all-time in games played for Chicago. He also led all Blackhawks defencemen in scoring for 10 consecutive seasons, in 1982, he was awarded the James Norris Memorial Trophy, as the Leagues top defenceman. That year, he had 39 goals and 85 points, which is still the Blackhawks single-season records for goals and he was selected to eight NHL All-Star Games. While with Chicago, Wilson was named as an NHL First Team All-Star in 1982, acquired by San Jose from Chicago just before the Sharks first season, Wilson brought instant credibility and respect to the young franchise. He played two seasons for the Sharks, scoring 48 points in 86 games, at his 1, 000th NHL game played ceremony, he announced the creation of the Doug Wilson Scholarship Foundation. This scholarship provides assistance to worthy college-bound Bay Area students, Wilson announced his retirement as a member of the Sharks during training camp in 1993–94 after playing in 1,024 career games. In addition, he played in 95 career playoff games and scored 80 points, the Ottawa, Ontario native scored 827 points during his career that began in 1977-78 with Chicago. Five time Norris Trophy Nominee as best NHL defenceman, Chicago Blackhawks Leader in Career Goals and Points by a defenceman. Led all Chicago Blackhawks defenceman in Scoring for 10 consecutive seasons, 1st Captain in San Jose Sharks team history. 3rd All Time by a defenceman for Most Goals in a Season, #12 All Time among defenceman for Most Career Goals. #15 All Time among defenceman for Most Career Points, in 2004, Wilson was named to the Positive Coaching Alliances National Advisory Board. PCA, established at Stanford University in 1998, tries to create a positive character-building experience by using sports to teach life lessons, the win-at-all-costs mentality is de-emphasized in PCA. Wilson was inducted into the Chicago Sports Hall of Fame in September 1999 and he also serves on the NHLs board of directors for the alumni association. In October 1998, the Ottawa 67s honored his career by retiring his No.7 sweater. Known as a defenceman, he recorded 295 points in 194 OHL games with the 67s from 1975–77

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Joe Pavelski
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Joseph James Pavelski is an American professional ice hockey player and captain for the San Jose Sharks of the National Hockey League. He scored a goal in his first NHL game, making him the 11th Sharks player in the history of the team to do so and he won a silver medal as a member of the United States national mens ice hockey team at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. He also served as captain of Team USA at the 2016 World Cup of Hockey in Toronto, Joe was born to Sandy and Mike Pavelski and has three siblings—Jerry, Sheri, and Scott. His family is Polish American and their surname was originally spelled Pawelski and his mother said, He loved anything athletic, and hockey was just a good fit for the winter. You didnt realize that your son was that good, Joe Pavelski is co-owner of the Janesville Jets NAHL team. His younger brother Scott formerly played for the University of New Hampshire mens ice hockey team, Pavelski won a Wisconsin State Hockey Championship with SPASH Panthers in 2002. He was a member of the 2004 Clark Cup champion Waterloo Black Hawks of the USHL and he won the 2004 USHL Dave Tyler Junior Player of the Year Award. Pavelski played in 84 games over two seasons at the University of Wisconsin of the Western Collegiate Hockey Association He recorded 101 points. Pavelski was named to the All-WCHA Rookie Team in 2005, was selected to the All-WCHA Second Team, and he helped Wisconsin win the 2006 NCAA Division I Mens Ice Hockey Championship, while leading the team in overall points. Pavelski began his NHL career in the 2006–07 season and he began on a hot streak, scoring a goal in his first game, and scoring a total seven goals and 10 points in his first 12 games. He continued playing well, but suffered a leg injury which reduced his playing time, Pavelski earned the sobriquet Little Joe from Sharks announcer Randy Hahn, a reference to Pavelskis teammate and San Jose superstar Jumbo Joe, Joe Thornton. He also became one of the most dangerous players in the NHL during shootouts, during the 2008 Stanley Cup playoffs, he was tied with Ryane Clowe for the team lead in goals and tied for second with Clowe in points. Pavelski also led San Jose with three game-winning goals during the playoffs, which tied for third most in the league, in addition to his offensive numbers, he finished tied 12th among NHL forwards in blocked shots during the regular season. Pavelski had another season in 2008–09, playing in 80 games and recording 25 goals,34 assists. It was after this streak that he picked up the nickname The Big Pavelski to accompany his former nickname of Little Joe. Pavelski came close to scoring his first NHL hat trick on March 19,2011, after the game, however, one of the goals was awarded to Patrick Marleau, when it had been originally attributed to Pavelski, thus holding him to a two-goal game. During the 2012–13 NHL lockout, Pavelski signed with Belarusian team Dinamo Minsk of the Kontinental Hockey League, on July 30,2013, the Sharks announced that the club has signed Pavelski to a five-year contract extension. The extension began on July 1,2014, following the expiration of Pavelskis current contract, on March 11,2014, against the Toronto Maple Leafs, Pavelski scored his 400th career point

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Cow Palace
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Cow Palace is an indoor arena located in Daly City, California, situated on the citys border with neighboring San Francisco. Completed in 1941, it hosted the San Francisco Warriors of the NBA from 1962 to 1964, the Warriors temporarily returned to the Cow Palace to host the 1975 NBA Finals due to the fact that the Oakland–Alameda County Coliseum Arena was booked for an Ice Follies performance. It was the site of both the 1956 Republican National Convention and the 1964 Republican National Convention, during the 1960s and 1970s, the SF Examiner Games, a world-class indoor track and field meet, was held annually at the Cow Palace. From 1966 until 1999, the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus visited the Cow Palace, joined in later years by what is now Disney on Ice, the arena seats 11,089 for ice hockey and 12,953 for basketball. When the Warriors played there its basketball capacity was just over 15,000 and it has also been the home of the annual Grand National Rodeo, Horse & Stock Show since 1941. The venue hosted the 1960 mens NCAA basketball Final Four and the 1967 NBA All-Star Game, sesame Street Live has been held at the Cow Palace since the early 1980s, as has Champions on Ice. In recent years the Cow Palace has been the Bay Area stop for the Cirque du Soleil, the idea for the arena was inspired by the popularity of the livestock pavilion at the 1915 Panama–Pacific International Exposition. A local newspaper asked, as early as May 1935, Why, a headline writer turned the phrase around, thus Cow Palace. Dont Spurn “Cow Palace Almost ever since the Panama Pacific International Exposition twenty years ago San Francisco has been talking about holding an annual livestock show and it has made a few attempts in temporary quarters. For the past few years agitation has been active until now there is a possibility of establishing a million-dollar stock show plant in Visitacion Valley. Instead of doing what they can toward accomplishing this worthy enterprise there seems to be an effort on the part of many misguided souls to decry what they call a “cow palace. San Francisco has expended plenty in San Mateo county, the most recent investment of prominence being the new county jail and that is a better proposition than many other cities have even been offered when they came to lay out an agricultural exposition grounds. They bring country dollars to town as well as pry loose some of the money that comes out for a different type of amusement. The great good that is done for the industry, which in turn is for the ultimate benefit of the consumer. Instead of spoofing the “million dollar cow palace” the city papers and organizations should get behind it 100 per cent. Sausalito News, during World War II, though, the arena was used for processing soldiers bound for the Pacific Theater. The arena is used for the Grand National Rodeo today. The San Francisco Warriors of the National Basketball Association called the Cow Palace home from 1962 to 1964, the franchise then moved across the bay to the new Oakland Coliseum Arena and changed their name to Golden State Warriors. The Warriors lost to the Boston Celtics in the 1964 NBA Finals, the 1967 NBA Finals between San Francisco and the Philadelphia 76ers saw three games held at the Cow Palace

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SAP Center at San Jose is an indoor arena located in San Jose, California. Its primary tenant is the San Jose Sharks of the National Hockey League and it is also the home to the San Jose Barracuda of the American Hockey League. Plans for a San Jose arena began in the mid-1980s, when a group of citizens formed Fund Arena Now. The group contacted city officials and pursued potential sponsors and partners NHL and NBA. In the late 1980s, mayor Tom McEnery met with FAN and a measure to allocate local taxes for arena construction came up for a vote on June 7,1988. Soon after the NHL granted a franchise to San Jose. The Sharks requested an upgrade to NHL standards, including the addition of luxury suites, the arena was completed in 1993 under the name San Jose Arena. In 2001, naming rights were sold to Compaq, and it was renamed Compaq Center at San Jose, after HP purchased Compaq in 2002, the arena was renamed HP Pavilion, the same name as one of its computer models. In June 2013, German software company SAP purchased the rights to the facility in a five-year deal worth $3.35 million per year. The arena was renamed SAP Center at San Jose following the approval of the San Jose City Council, Intel Extreme Masters Season IX – San Jose in 2014 and Intel Extreme Masters Season X – San Jose were held at venue. Prior to Super Bowl 50 in nearby Santa Clara, the arena housed introductory media activities for the event, the SAP Center hosted games 3,4, and 6 of the 2016 Stanley Cup Finals, with the cup being presented to the Pittsburgh Penguins in game 6

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North entrance of the arena in 2008 when it was known as HP Pavilion at San Jose
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The American Hockey League is a 30-team professional ice hockey league based in the United States and Canada that serves as the primary developmental league for the National Hockey League. Twenty-seven AHL teams are located in the United States and the three are in Canada. The league offices are located in Springfield, Massachusetts, and its current president is David Andrews, the annual playoff champion is awarded the Calder Cup, named for Frank Calder, the first President of the NHL. The reigning champions are the Lake Erie Monsters, the AHL traces its origins directly to two predecessor professional leagues, the Canadian-American Hockey League, founded in 1926, and the first International Hockey League, established in 1929. With both leagues down to the minimum in membership, the governors of each recognized the need for action to assure their member clubs long-term survival. Their solution was to play an interlocking schedule, while the Can-Am was based in the Northeast and the IHL in the Great Lakes and Midwest, their footprints were close enough for this to be a viable option. The two older leagues eight surviving clubs began joint play in November 1936 as a new circuit of mutual convenience known as the International-American Hockey League. The four Can-Am teams became the I-AHL East Division, with the IHL quartet playing as the West Division. The IHL also contributed its former championship trophy, the F. G. Teddy Oke Trophy, the Oke Trophy is now awarded to the regular-season winners of the AHLs Northeast Division. A little more than a month into that first season, the balance, the makeshift new I-AHL played out the rest of its first season with just seven teams. At the end of the 1936–37 season, a modified playoff format was devised and a new championship trophy. The Syracuse Stars defeated the Philadelphia Ramblers in the final, three-games-to-one, the Calder Cup continues on today as the AHLs playoff championship trophy. After two seasons of interlocking play, the governors of the two leagues seven active teams met in New York City on June 28,1938, maurice Podoloff of New Haven, the former head of the Can-Am League, was elected the I-AHLs first president. The former IHL president, John Chick of Windsor, Ontario, the Bears remain the only one of these eight original I-AHL/AHL franchises to have been represented in the league without interruption since the 1938–39 season. The newly merged circuit also increased its schedule for each team by six games from 48 to 54. After the 1939–40 season the I-AHL renamed itself the American Hockey League and it generally enjoyed both consistent success on the ice and relative financial stability over its first three decades of operation. The number of teams competing for players rose from six to thirty in just seven years. Player salaries at all levels shot up dramatically with the increased demand and this did not seem to affect the AHL at first, as it expanded to 12 teams by 1970

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An AHL record crowd of 45,653 watched the Adirondack Phantoms defeat the Hershey Bears, 4–3 in OT, at the 2012 AHL Winter Classic at Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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San Jose Barracuda
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The San Jose Barracuda are a professional ice hockey team in the American Hockey League which began play in the 2015–16 season. Affiliated with the National Hockey Leagues San Jose Sharks, the Barracuda share the SAP Center with its parent club, the Barracuda are a relocation of the former Worcester Sharks AHL franchise, joining several other AHL franchises to form a new AHL Pacific Division. The team will play at the SAP Center at San Jose, neither the Sharks nor Barracuda would comment, however, they stated that an official announcement would come later in the week. The name and logo were confirmed the day in a joint press release. Friday October 9,2015 marked the first official game in Barracuda history and they took on the Rockford IceHogs at home, coming up on the losing end of a 4-2 score. Micheal Haley scored the first ever goal while on a power play in the first period. The Barracuda picked up the first win in history while visiting the Stockton Heat on October 15,2015 by a score of 4-1. On February 10,2016, head coach Roy Sommer broke the record for most wins as an AHL coach, the Barracuda finished the season 31-26-8-3. Their.527 winning percentage meant that they were matched up against the Ontario Reign during the Pacific Division semifinals. After splitting the first two games of the series, the Barracuda came out on the losing end of game three by a 3-1 score, and also lost game four by a score of 4-1 to end their season. Bryan Lerg and Nikolay Goldobin led the team in goals with 21, goaltender Aaron Dell played a team high 40 games in net for the Barracuda, while winning 17 of them. The teams average attendance of 4,412 placed them 24th of 30 in the AHL

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San Jose Barracuda
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ECHL
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The ECHL is a mid-level professional ice hockey league based in Princeton, New Jersey, with teams scattered across the United States and one franchise in Canada. It is a tier below the American Hockey League, additionally, the leagues players are represented by the Professional Hockey Players Association in negotiations with the ECHL itself. Some 614 players have played at least one game in both the NHL and the ECHL. All but four National Hockey League teams have affiliations with an ECHL team with Columbus, Florida, New Jersey, however, these teams do sometimes lend contracted players to ECHL teams for development and increased playing time. The leagues regular season begins in October and ends in April, the current ECHL champion is the Allen Americans. Alaska, Bakersfield, Fresno, Idaho, Las Vegas, Long Beach, in a change reflective of the leagues now-nationwide presence, the East Coast Hockey League shortened its name to the orphan initialism ECHL on May 19,2003. The ECHL reached its largest size to date that season before being reduced to 28 teams for the 2004–05 season, the ECHL has attempted to be more tech-friendly to its fans. In 2008, the introduced the ECHL toolbar for internet browsers which gave users short cut access to statistics, scores, transactions. At the annual ECHL Board of Governors Meeting on June 15,2010, in Henderson, Nevada, the former American Conference was renamed the Eastern Conference, while the National Conference, was re-designated the Western Conference. Within the Eastern Conference, the East Division was renamed the Atlantic Division, the league lost its only Canadian team with the folding of the Victoria Salmon Kings subsequent to the 2010–11 season. The league increased to 20 teams for the 2011–12 season with the addition of the expansion franchise Chicago Express and the Colorado Eagles who previously played in the Central Hockey League. That number dropped to 22 for the 2013–14 season with the folding of the Trenton Titans, the league, because of geographical anomalies, has used unbalanced conferences and divisions, making for some extremely varied playoff formats and limited inter-conference play. Due to travel costs, the league has attempted to placate owners in keeping those costs down, the Board of Governors then votes whether or not to extend the franchises league licenses until the next Board of Governors Meeting. At the 2012 Board of Governors Meeting, the Board elected to limit the league to 26 teams, however, it was decided at the 2015 Board of Governors meeting that the cap should be expanded to 30 teams, hoping to eventually match the NHL and AHLs 30-team total. Reno has not had a minor hockey team since its WCHL franchise folded in 1998. After being listed for about a decade, Reno was eventually removed from the future markets page in spring 2016. However, in September 2016, new group called Reno Puck Club, LLC came forward. On February 8,2016, the announced its approval of the Worcester Railers HC as an expansion team in Worcester, Massachusetts

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Allen Americans
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The Allen Americans are an ice hockey team headquartered at the Allen Event Center in Allen, Texas, which currently plays in the ECHL. The team was founded in 2009 in the Central Hockey League where they played for five seasons, the CHL folded in 2014 and the ECHL accepted the remaining CHL teams as members for the 2014–15 season. In their first two seasons in the ECHL, Allen advanced to the Kelly Cup finals, winning the championship in both years, currently, the Americans are affiliated with the National Hockey Leagues San Jose Sharks and the American Hockey Leagues San Jose Barracuda. On April 15,2009, the Central Hockey League announced a team for Allen. The new team was owned by Top Shelf, LLC, a group consisting of EXCO Resources chairman Douglas H. Miller and former NHL defenseman Steve Duchesne and that same day, the team announced an affiliation with the NHLs Dallas Stars. Through this affiliation, they affiliated with the Austin-based AHL Texas Stars. On April 27,2009, the group unveiled the teams name, logo. On May 12,2009, the Americans announced Dwight Mullins as their head coach, along with Bill MacDonald as assistant coach. The first game on ice was not until November 7,2009. Allen advanced to the playoffs as the two seed in the Southern Conference in their first season, defeating both the Laredo Bucks and number one seed Odessa Jackalopes in seven games. In the Ray Miron Presidents Cup finals, they took a 2–1 series lead over the Rapid City Rush, Allen also qualified for the playoffs in the following two seasons, winning the Bud Poile Governors’ Cup regular season title in only their second season in the league. They lost in the finals to eventual champions, the Bossier-Shreveport Mudbugs, in 2011. This agreement officially made the Americans affiliates of the Avalanche after having a relationship with the Monsters over the previous two years. This affiliation is no longer in place as Colorado and Lake Erie moved their affiliation to the now defunct Denver Cutthroats organization. On May 4,2012, the Allen Americans announced that former Dallas Stars Mike Modano, Craig Ludwig, shortly after, the Allen Americans announced that they would not retain GM and head coach Dwight Mullins, along with associate coach Bill McDonald. Richard Matvichuk was then announced as the assistant general manager and defensive coach, a month later, the Americans announced Steve Martinson as their new head coach. After falling behind 2-0 in the first two periods of seven against the Wichita Thunder, Allen scored two third period goals to tie the game. In overtime, Todd Robinson scored the winner to give Allen their first championship win

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NBC Sports California
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NBC Sports California is an American regional sports network that is owned by the NBC Sports Group unit of NBCUniversal, and operates as an affiliate of NBC Sports Regional Networks. The channel broadcasts coverage of professional and college sports events throughout Northern California, as well as original sports-related news, discussion. NBC Sports California is available on cable and fiber optic television providers throughout northern California, the network maintains main studios and offices headquartered with sister network NBC Sports Bay Area in San Jose, California. In the summer of 2003, Comcast acquired the television rights to broadcast regular season. Previously, the game broadcasts were only available either via pay-per-view sports packages. Although the network focused on the Northern California region, it began expanding its coverage to serve as a complement to Comcast SportsNet Bay Area. The San Jose Sharks followed the As from CSN Bay Area for the 2009–10 NHL season, with the relaunch, Comcast SportsNet Bay Area and California merged editorial coverage on their respective regional websites. Many cable providers in the San Francisco Bay Area that previously carried CSN California via digital cable have since moved to the network to basic cable tiers. Negotiations went on for months, leading Dish to file a request with the Federal Communications Commission to enter into arbitration hearings to formalize a deal, Dish Network lost its case and dropped Comcast SportsNet California from its lineup on November 24,2010. On February 3,2011, Dish Network restored CSN California after the satellite reached a agreement to carry the channel without any legal arbitration. The network produces its pre-game and post-game shows for Oakland Athletics either on-site during home games, the station also airs Shark Byte, a magazine program focusing on the San Jose Sharks that originated on Comcast SportsNet Bay Area. The network also carries programming related to the NFLs Oakland Raiders, select high school sports events are also occasionally broadcast on the network, including weekly high school football games on Friday nights during the fall. m. Comcast SportsNet California previously also broadcast the Raiders Report, a show featuring news. In September 2009, the program was replaced by a live show airing immediately after network telecasts of Raiders games. The feed broadcasts all Sacramento Kings home game telecasts, as well as all home and some games involving the San Jose Sharks in HD. In 2010, CSN California began broadcasting all Athletics games in high definition

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KUFX
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For further history of the 98.5 FM frequency in San Jose, see also KOME. KUFX is a classic rock-formatted radio station in San Jose, California and it is owned by Entercom Communications. The station is referred to on-air as K-Fox, the station has studios located in the SoMa district of San Francisco, and the transmitter is located on Blackberry Hill above Los Gatos. On January 24,2011, KUFX began simulcasting on KUZX102.1 MHz in San Francisco and this simulcast switched to 102. 1-HD2 on August 1,2014,102.1 now broadcasts as KRBQ. KUFX was originally located at 94.5 FM, then 104.9 FM, before this, the 98.5 frequency was the longtime home to KOME, which is best remembered as a major Bay Area AOR station throughout the 1970s and into the 1990s. Several of the KUFX staff were employed by KOME, KUFX refers to itself as 98.5 KFOX. KUFX is the radio station for the San Jose Sharks of the National Hockey League. That situation, he noted, provided an ironic twist to him living in the technology-rich Silicon Valley, the morning show was hosted by Greg Kihn, a musician who had a few Top 40 hit songs in the 1980s, until September 14,2012. KFOX also holds a Last Band Standing competition every year, between bands that play classic rock cover songs, the three categories of competition include Cover Bands, Tribute Bands, and Under 18 Bands. The past overall winners are Aja Vu in 2004, The Strobe in 2005, and last years winner, Sage. In June 1997, KUFX, KBAY, and KBRG were involved in a frequency swap, which saw KUFX moving from 94.5 to 104.9. KBAY moved to 94.5, and KBRG got the coveted 100.3 signal and this was due to Clear Channel being above the Federal Communications Commission ownership limits. These limits were imposed when Clear Channel was officially taken private by Bain Capital and that move allowed them to simulcast KUFXs programming on the 102.1 MHz frequency, as KUFXs main signal on 98.5 only provides grade B coverage of San Francisco. This simulcast switched to 102. 1-HD2 on August 1,2014, KOME KRBQ KUFX website Query the FCCs FM station database for KUFX Radio-Locator information on KUFX Query Nielsen Audios FM station database for KUFX

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Bret Hedican
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Bret Michael Hedican is an American former professional ice hockey player, a Stanley Cup champion, and a two-time US Olympian. Hedican was drafted 198th overall by the St. Louis Blues in the 1988 NHL Entry Draft, a product of St. Cloud State University, Hedican played with the 1992 US Olympic Team before he made his NHL debut in the 1991–92 season with the Blues. Hedican was then traded by the Panthers with Kevyn Adams and Tomas Malec to the Carolina Hurricanes for Sandis Ozolinsh and he would spend five and a half seasons with the Hurricanes and won his only Stanley Cup in 2006. For the 2008–09 season, Hedican signed a contract with the Anaheim Ducks. He played his 1000th career NHL game on November 21,2008 against the St. Louis Blues, on September 6,2009, Hedican was interviewed live on the television sports talk show Chronicle Live, on CSN Bay Area, and announced his retirement. Hedican led the league in short-handed assists during the 1997-98 season, Hedican joined Comcast SportsNet California shortly after retiring, serving as a pre-game and post-game analyst for the channels San Jose Sharks coverage. In the fall of 2014, he joined the Sharks Radio Network team and he also occasionally analyzes games for NBCSN. In 2014, Hedican partnered with another former Vancouver Canuck, Paul Reinhart, investing over $1 million in a team management start-up, RosterBot. Member of Stanley Cup champion Carolina Hurricanes in 2006, had his number 24 retired by St. Cloud State University on November 6,2010. The couple have two daughters, Keara Kiyomi and Emma Yoshiko, Hedican and Yamaguchi met at the 1992 Olympic Winter Games when both were members of the US Olympic team. Hedican is a graduate of North High School in North St. Paul, august 12,2006, was declared Bret Hedican Day in North Saint Paul, Minnesota, including the presentation of the Stanley Cup and a parade. List of NHL players with 1000 games played Bret Hedicans career statistics at The Internet Hockey Database AlwaysDream. org Bret Hedicans Day With the Stanley Cup

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List of NHL mascots
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This is a list of current and former National Hockey League mascots, sorted alphabetically. Al the Octopus is the eight legged mascot of the Detroit Red Wings and it is also the only mascot that is not costumed. Since then, fans throw an octopus onto the ice for good luck, in one game in the 1995 Playoffs, fans threw forty-five onto the ice. Arena Manager and Zamboni driver Al Sobotka ceremoniously scoops them up and whirls them over his head, NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman forbade Sobotka from doing so during the 2008 playoffs, claiming that debris flew off the octopuses and onto the ice. Sobotka and the Red Wings have denied that this occurs, but even so Sobotka acquiesced, in 2011 the NHL forbade fans from throwing any octopuses on the ice, penalizing all violators with a $500 fine. This has led to local outcry at the seemingly intentional destruction of a classic tradition, Red Wings forward Johan Franzen has pledged to pay any and all fines as an attempt to continue the tradition. Now two identical large purple prop octopodes, which are named after ice manager Al Sobotka, are positioned in Joe Louis Arena for the duration of the playoffs. Bailey, the mascot of the Los Angeles Kings is a 6-foot lion who wears No.72 because it is the temperature in Los Angeles. He was named in honor of Garnet Ace Bailey who served Director of Pro Scouting for seven years before dying in the September 11,2001 terrorist attacks, Bailey is the Kings second mascot, the first was a snow leopard named Kingston in 1990. As of 2015, Kingston had come out of retirement to become the LA Kings AHL Ontario Reign mascot, for the 2009-10 season, the Kings partnered with Carls Jr. to create a series of videos in which Kings organization members competed against Carls Jr. organization members. The first installment in which Bailey appears is a spoof on Carls Jr. s commercials, since 2013 Bailey has been involved in a Twitter feud with former WWE superstar CM Punk, a Chicago native and die-hard Chicago Blackhawks fan. Ultimately Punk posted a picture of himself in front of United Center in Chicago wearing a Kings jersey after the Kings eliminated the Blackhawks in seven games. Bernie, the newest mascot of the Colorado Avalanche, debuted to the public against the Vancouver Canucks at Pepsi Center on October 3,2009 in Denver, Bernie, short for Bernard, is a St. Bernard dog. Bernie is the mascot since Howler the Yeti who was retired early in the Avalanche franchise. Bernies jersey is marked with a bone that resembles the #1, a fan page for Bernie was also unveiled October 3,2009. Blades the Bruin serves as the mascot for the Boston Bruins. Blades the Bruin is notable because he is the only known bear who does not hibernate, Blades first took an interest in hockey when watching Johnny Bucyk play pond hockey with groups of neighborhood children. One day, he sneaked in the back of Bucyks truck and was taken to the Boston Garden where Bucyk fed him pizza, hot dogs, popcorn, Blades was named by a young fan, Jillian Dempsey, in attendance at that evenings game

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2015 NHL Stadium Series
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The 2015 NHL Stadium Series was an outdoor regular season National Hockey League game, part of the Stadium Series of games held at football or baseball stadiums. The Los Angeles Kings played against the San Jose Sharks at Levis Stadium in Santa Clara and this was the only game in the Stadium Series during the 2014–15 NHL regular season. The game coincided with NBC Sports Hockey Day in America coverage, the Kings defeated the Sharks 2–1 on a goal by Marian Gaborik early in the third period to extend the Kings winning streak to seven games, while the Sharks fell to 2–5–1 in their last eight games. With the victory, the Kings overtook the Sharks for the wild card spot in the Western Conference. On August 6,2014, it was announced that Levis Stadium was going to host the game between the Sharks and the Kings. The NHL was originally looking to hold four outdoor games. Besides Levis Stadium, other sites for the Stadium Series games included Coors Field, Gillette Stadium, Target Field, Beaver Stadium. Foxborough, Minneapolis and Denver will instead host 2016 outdoor contests, number in parenthesis represents the players total in goals or assists to that point of the season ^ Martin Jones and Alex Stalock dressed as the back up goaltenders